[Footnote 84: In his book Die deutsche Polizei
(The German Police) (Darmstadt, L.C.
Wittich Verlag, 1941), p. 24, the prominent Nazi police
official, Dr. Werner Best, wrote that this law “is
to be regarded not as a ’police law’—­that
is, as the regulation of police functions and activities—­but
as the expression of the new conception of the state
as it has been transformed by the National Socialist
revolution, from which the new ‘police’
concept is derived.” Also, this law was
for the police “the confirmation that the work
already begun was in agreement with the law giving
will of the Supreme Leadership of the Reich.”]